1. In April of 1964, The Beatles held the top 5 positions on the Billboard Charts. #1 - Can't Buy Me Love, #2 - Twist and Shout, #3 - She Loves You, #4 - I Want to Hold Your Hand, #5 – Please, Please Me!
2. Akon's Smack That debuted at # 95 in October, 2006. The next week it was number seven. That jump of 88 positions was the single biggest jump in Billboard's history. 3. Harry Belafonte's 1956, Calypso, was the first album to sell one million copies.
1.Philips and Sony developed the CD in 1980.
2. The number of recorded CDs and blank CDs sold has been about equal.
3. About one-third of recorded CDs ever sold were pirated. http://didyouknow.org/fastfacts/music.htm
1.The music industry generates about $4 billion in online music but loose about $40 billion to illegal downloads.
2.To win a gold disc, an album needs to sell 100,000 copies in Britain, and 500,000 in the United States.
3. Top-selling albums used to reach sales of 20 million copies before the advent of online piracy - by 2009 it had dropped to about 5 million. http://didyouknow.org/fastfacts/music.htm fer:))<3
1. In April of 1964, The Beatles held the top 5 positions on the Billboard Charts. #1 - Can't Buy Me Love, #2 - Twist and Shout, #3 - She Loves You, #4 - I Want to Hold Your Hand, #5 – Please, Please Me!
2. Akon's Smack That debuted at # 95 in October, 2006. The next week it was number seven. That jump of 88 positions was the single biggest jump in Billboard's history.
3. Harry Belafonte's 1956, Calypso, was the first album to sell one million copies.
http://www.popculturemadness.com/Music/Music-Facts-Figures.html
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1.Philips and Sony developed the CD in 1980.
2. The number of recorded CDs and blank CDs sold has been about equal.
3. About one-third of recorded CDs ever sold were pirated.
http://didyouknow.org/fastfacts/music.htm
Michael Jackson won the most Grammy’s ever with a total of eight.
http://www.comedy-zone.net/triviazone/music/page2.htm
About 40 billion songs are downloaded illegally every year, that’s 90% of them.
http://didyouknow.org/fastfacts/music/htm
Most toilets flush in E flat.
http://www.angelfire.com/ca6/uselessfacts/music/001.html
1. The most popular song is called the Empire State of Mind by: Jay-z and Alicia Keys.
www.billboard.com
2. The most popular type of genre is hip hop.
http://ezinearticles.com/?hip-hop-the-worlds-most-popular-genre-of-music&id=421651
3. The 100th most popular song is called American Saturday Night by: Brad Paisley.
www.billboard .com By: Eliza
1.The music industry generates about $4 billion in online music but loose about $40 billion to illegal downloads.
2.To win a gold disc, an album needs to sell 100,000 copies in Britain, and 500,000 in the United States.
3. Top-selling albums used to reach sales of 20 million copies before the advent of online piracy - by 2009 it had dropped to about 5 million.
http://didyouknow.org/fastfacts/music.htm fer:))<3